“YOU’RE MEN, AIN’T YA?”
[This Monday’s Archive was originally published on December 22, 2017. It so deeply resonates today as the Democrats were allowed to steal Trump’s reelection in 2020 – frankly inconceivable to me back in 2017 – and are doing everything they can to prevent his reelection once again in 2024. And will attempt to steal 2024 no matter who the GOP nominee is. Thus the most important question of our time now is, “You’re Americans, ain’t ya? Will you be or won’t ya?”]
TTP, December 22, 2017
At the bar, a townsman says, “Shame what this town’s come to.” Costner responds, “You can do something about it.”
The townsman is frightened at the prospect, objecting, “We’re freighters, Ralph here’s a shopkeeper.”
Costner looks at him with disgust: “You’re men, ain’t ya?”
The townsman, defensively: “I didn’t raise my boys just to see ‘em killed.”
Costner: “Well, you may not know this, but there are things that gnaw on a man worse than dying.”
At the end of Open Range, Costner and Duvall alone face the kingpin and all his henchmen. Their courage in the ensuing gunfight inspires the townspeople to join the two grazers in gunning down the evil that had plagued them.
That is what Trump is doing for America. Politics is downstream of culture, so they say. Not for Trump. As uniquely befits him, Trump is going in reverse – changing our politics will change our culture.








These are the only wild monkeys in the entire continent of Europe. Originally from the Atlas Mountains of Morocco and named for Moroccan Berbers, they stowed away on various ships of Portuguese, Spanish, and Arabs centuries ago and made themselves at home on the Rock of Gibraltar.




